Physics Department
Indiana University physicists who've spent years working with scientists around the world looking for the Higgs boson, that theorized particle thought to give mass to other particles, today learned the experiment they are tied most closely to -- the ATLAS detector -- and a second independent experiment both have seen similar results providing the best proof yet that this particle does exist.
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The world's largest educational and scientific computing society, the Association for Computing Machinery, has recognized Indiana University Distinguished Professor Geoffrey Fox for his exceptional contributions to computing by naming him a 2011 Fellow.
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Scientists at Indiana University's Biocomplexity Institute have developed a computational model for the intricate cellular dance that occurs during the earliest stages of animal development when embryonic segments called somites form. Somites eventually give rise to the internal scaffolding of life: For common earthworms that scaffolding is 100 or so body segments; in humans it's a segmented mass of cell layers that leads to the formation of muscles, vertebrae, limbs, ribs and tailbone.
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The Chemistry, Physics and Astronomy departments at Indiana University Bloomington are inviting everyone, young and old, to their annual open houses on Saturday, Nov. 5. The open houses are free and feature a wide range of activities.
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Nobel Prize-winning Dutch theoretical physicist Gerard 't Hooft will present the 21st Joseph and Sophia Konopinski Memorial Lecture in Physics at Indiana University Bloomington next Tuesday, Nov. 1. 't Hooft is a professor at Utrecht University in the Netherlands.
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Scientists at Indiana University's Biocomplexity Institute have developed a computational model for the intricate cellular dance that occurs during the earliest stages of animal development when embryonic segments called somites form. Somites eventually give rise to the internal scaffolding of life: For common earthworms that scaffolding is 100 or so body segments; in humans it's a segmented mass of cell layers in the early embryo that leads to the formation of muscles, vertebrae, limbs, ribs and the tailbone.
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